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The Church in Perth had shown its commitment to migration work for 1984 in the funding of $20,000 improvements to the new Catholic Migration Centre in Victoria Square and the provision of a full time and part time salaried workers, Archbishop Foley said last Sunday. He was speaking at the blessing of new premises at the corner of Murray Street that were officially opened by the Minister for MultiCultural and Ethnic Affairs, Mr Ron Davies. Archbishop Foley said the blessing he bestowed on the centre indicated it was set aside for a religious purpose and to give inspiration to those who help integrate the work of the centre within the context of the Church's mission of Christ to the whole world.
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As part of his blessing of the new Catholic Migration Centre in Victoria Square last Sunday Archbishop Foley blessed a representation of the crucifixion which he later hung in the foyer of the new building. The cross is a copy of the famous figure which spoke to Francis of Assisi and asked him to repair the church of St Damiano in Assisi. the new Catholic Migration Centre has been housed in a cottage at the corner of Victoria Square and Murray Street. Formerly it occupied smaller premises within Centrecare offices.
Expressing his appreciation for the voluntary effort that went into the work of the centre, Archbishop Foley issued a challenge to members of the Church to be• seen to avoid "onversation, action or harmful generalisations that might reflect prejudice. "May we work together to create a public opinion that Square Victoria at Visitors to Sunday's ceremony will build an Australia based were given a summary of activity taking place at the on mutual respect for each Catholic Migrant Centre. individual", he said. It includes: • post-arrival information and library • He paid tribute to those migration information and advocacy • travel loans who had pioneered Catholic • services welfare from Catholic Migration Geneva • migration work after World social work services • counselling and support to War 11. to Margaret Sanderfamilies • women's groups eg Filipino group • reson now in retirement in and groups support • refugees settlement loans for Wembley, to the late Father activities • work with migrant chaplains • bi-lingual Stinson and the late Cyril languages: workers available to speak the following Louis Conlon who Brother Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Filipino, Dutch • a place large part in the a played where migrants and refugees volunteer their services resettlement of English childdeveloping • communities ethnic • a meeting place for ren orphaned during the war ethnic co-op's and arts and craft store • accommodaHe noted Australia today is unaccompanied tion services for women and youth eg up of people of 1 15 made minors • refugee emergency loans (limited funds at nationalities and one third of present) • a "drop-in' facility for coffee. bi-lingual the population was either on week the during music papers and magazines, born overseas or had a parent Saturday. between 10.00 am-12.00 noon. born overseas.
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VATICAN CITY — If there are not enough priests to hear confessions, a non -sacramental penance service "is more suitable than general absolution" in most cases, says a report by the Vatican's International Theological Commission. The conclusion marks a rejection of recent trends in Church thinking and practice under which general absolution has increasingly been seen as the primary way of dealing with those extraordinary situations when they arise. The theologians acknowledged "the difficult and even somewhat dramatic pastoral situations in many parts of the Church today" that may make it difficult for Catholics to confess individually because of a lack of priests. But they suggested that the . 'possibility of a Christian obtaining the forgiveness of grave sin by perfect contrition- provides a pastorally better framework for dealing with those situations than general absolution without individual confession. A non-sacramental penance service in which persons with grave sins are urged to perfect contrition "is more suitable than general absolution, because in this way the obligation to the later personal confession can be made psychologically more understandable to most of the faithful," the commission said. The Church's tradition on perfect contrition, it commented, holds that this act "also always implies the desire ('votum') of receiving the sacrament of penance as soon as possible" and that it "probably is a sufficient disposition for receiving the Eucharist" when there are not enough confessors available.
Compiled from NCC services The report, Penance and R econciliation, was released in an English translation in the United States last week. It was the product of a 1982 work session by the c ommission in prepara-
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Several American theologians have criticised the recommendation from the Vatican's International Theological Commission saying it would be better for priests not to use general absolution even in legally sanctioned c ircumstances, but to substitue non-sacramental communal penance. Jesuit Father Francis Buckley, a theologian at the University of San Francisco, summarised the view of several when he asked, "Why are non-sacramental forms to be preferred to sacramental forms in a church which rejoices in the sacraments?" "Theologically it doesn't make sense," said Jesuit Father Ladislas Orsy of the Catholic University of America, a canon lawyer and theologian who has written
tion for the 1983 World Synod of Bishops. But approval for general publication was granted only in late November 1983 by Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Prefect of the Vatican's Doctrinal Congregation and president of the commission. In the report, the international team of papally appointed theologians gave an overview of the biblical, theological and anthropological dimensions of penance. T hey also tackled a number of contemporary issues such as the relation between personal and social sin, the difference between grave and nongrave sins, and the place of confessions of devotion in Catholic life.
Penance Rejecting an individualistic view of penance and reconciliation, the commission noted that "conversion to God is irrevocably connected with conversion to one's brother". Recognition of the integral relationship between a "personal act" and its "social dimension" is also important in order to understand "the ecclesial and sacramental aspects of penance", the commission said. Discussing the relative seriousness of different kinds of sin, the theologians reaffirmed the "difference between grave and non-grave sins . . . taught by the entire tradition of the Church."
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It said that objectiviely satisfaction in the renewal t here are "command- of the sacrament. ments which are of grave They also called for obligation, with the obli- more attention to "the gation to an act in which wealth and multiplicity of one gives himself entirely, the forms of penance," and . . commandments including both the sacrawhich only impose a light mental and the non-sacraobligation." mental forms of They said that each per- reconciliation. son can make a "fundamental decision", saying A ccord "yes" or "no" to God, and they described this "funWhile affirming that the damental option" as that Eucharist "forgives dad \ which "determine in the sins," in accord with the last analysis the moral Church's conviction from condition of man." ancient times, they also "But the concept of fun- pointed to the equally damental option is not a ancient Church tradition criterion which allows one of excluding from the to distinguish concretely Eucharist those who were between grave and venial guilty of grave sins. sins," the commission "Therefore the Eucharist said. is no alternative to peThe theologians noted nance in the Church," different emphases in difthey said. ferent periods of Church The International Theohistory regarding the sac- logical Commission, esrament of penance, from tablished by Pope Paul VI the stress on public pe- in 1969 at the recommennance and satisfaction in dation of the 1967 World the early Church, to the Synod of Bishops, constress on private penance sists of 30 leading theoloand contrition in the Mid- gians from various dle Ages and modern peri- c ountries who meet at od, to the accent on least once a year to study confession in recent times. and report on theological They called for an inte- or doctrinal questions gral understanding of the posed to it by the pope or relationship between con- by the Congregation for fession, contrition and the Doctrine of the Faith.
Marist guest M ELBOURNE — Cardinal Paulo Arns from Brazil was special guest at the Marist Brothers' Youth Festival held here. More than 250 people from throughout A ustralia attended the festival, which explored social justic themes, including examples of injustice in Australia.
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e xtensively on the history expressed essentially the same views as Mons Malone. and theology of penance. The view of the commission The document's main purgoes directly contrary to pose is to tackle "the funda"what Pope Paul VI was try- mental crisis of penance ing to do" when he expanded stemming from the loss of a the use of general absolu- sense of sin," and its stand tion, said Mons Fredrick against general absolution McManus, academic vice w as an attempt "to bring president at the Catholic people alive to the basic University of America and a e lements which go to make canon law and liturgy expert. up contrition and penance," T he theological commis- he told the NC News Rome sion, a papally appointed bureau.) group of 30 theologians, meeets yearly to discuss Unpastoral major doctrinal and theological questions posed to it by "If somebody is in a state of the pope or by the Vatican mortal sin, to deprive him of doctrinal congregation. the sacrament for a long time Its reports are only adviso- is unpastoral," he said. The ry, but they are not made document "shows a shocking public unless they are re- disregard for the horror of leased by the prefect of the r emaining in serious sin," he doctrinal congregation. Car- said. dinal Joseph Ratiinger. who Mons McManus and Father is also the ex officio presi- Orsy noted the commission's dent of the commission. f ocus on the mortal sin issue In its latest report, "Pe- and suggested that for the nance and Reconciliation," average Catholic not in sep ubl ished in the United rious sin the question of States in January, the com- general absolution should be mission argued against use viewed through a different of general absolution even in prism. "If we urge people to fremost of the "extraordinary emergency situations" in quent the sacrament, should which Church norms permit we not under some extraordiits use. nary circumstances offer general absolution?" asked Mons McManus. If the sacraContrition ment can be made available, "one can't argue that it is Instead, it suggested, a non- desirable" to substitue a nonsacramental communal pe- sacramental service, he said. n ance service should be Father Orsy said he found used, in which any partici- several positive points in the pants in a state of serious sin total document of the cornshould be urged to make an mission, notably that it act of perfect contrition. "faces the problem of what is T he commission argued a mortal sin." there is confusion about the later obligation to confess Absolution serious sins after general absolution, but the perfect A clearer understanding contrition approach makes that mortal sin is a "serious this obligation "psychologi- break" with God and His cally more understandable to grace would help people to most of the faithful." understand that when this "That's like saying that happens, "individual reconciwhen people attend Mass, at liation is necessary," he said. times they should not take "On the other hand, for the Communion in order to in- so-called 'ordinary sinscrease the psychological im- ' . . .general absolution can pact of the presence of be used," he added. C hrist," Father Orsy This theological view, he commented. noted, coincides with Church At issue, said Mons McMa- law that requires individual nus, is "the deprivation of the confession only for mortal sacrament of penance." sins but recommends freMons Richard Malone, di- quent reception of the sacrarector of the US Bishops' ment whether one is in a Committee on Doctrine, ac- state of a serious sin or not. knowledged the commis- He noted the Church trusts sion's position on general people to come to their own absolution was controversal. decision about their spiritituBut he defended the docu- al state regarding the recepment, saying it is "aimed at tion of Communion. reviving the whole sacra- If the Church showed the ment of penance" and "intent same trust in administering on saving the sacrament the sacrament of penance, he from being gobbled up by suggested, it would continue general absolution." to offer individual confession (In Rome, American Pas- to all those who "wish or sionist Father Barnabas need it," but could also proAhern, a Bible scholar and vide penitential services with member of the commission, general absolution.
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Sunday's proceedings at the Catholic Migration Centre were enlivened by singing and vigorous dancing by a Chilean folk group.
Catering for groups Mr Guido Vogels, co-ordinator of the Catholic Migration Centre.
Staff member Silvia Pinto, originally from Singapore, read a passage of the gospel.
The WA Minister for Migration, Mr Davies, said a recent Catholic submission was one of the best papers he had received.
The $20,000 refit of the Catholic Migrant Centre at the corner of Murray Street and Victoria Square included the addition of a large room for various group activity especial ly among w omen migrants who were the most disadvantaged when i t came to social contact. The house is being provided rent-free by t he archdiocese of Perth which also pays for the electricity. In addition, in 1984 the archdiocesan chancery has
Activities to overcome disadvantages for women women would be helped in laried workers undertaken to pay one and a half salaries in addition to the salary that is paid by the Catholic Charities Appeal Altogether five salaries are paid to cover the activity of seven persons attached to the centre The Commonwealth government provides two sa-
Mr Guido Vogels, co-ordinator of the centre, said this week that the centre was attracting 120 new clients each week in the social work section and in addition there were many contacts being m aintained in other services He said that up to 100
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Rehecord The benefit of television over film, it is claimed is that it can bring a reality into a room that no cinema can achieve. It is true of the cricket. It was true of the Vietnam and later wars and it had better become true of the growing killer lawlessness. The tones were quite catastrophic and ponderous which reported this week on television and on front pages of newspapers that a notorious Sydney bank robber had been shot after a five hour pursuit that had a policeman barely escape with his life. Like some suburban version of war the viewer was crouched behind vehicles, watching armed police running for cover. Presumably a large section of Sydney's busy traffic was paralysed while strategic roads were closed for hours. The difficulty facing reporters was to convince the public that this was no television serial, that a real human being was walking with hostages and we already knew he was a dead man, and that one of the police had yet to confront that man and almost lose his life It is a tragic irony that only hours later bullets would be again whistling through loungeroorns as though they were toys, bodies would lurch as shots hammered home and cars would screech and hurtle death through crowded cities. But that would not be real, it would be television fantasy land for the dozing public. Where does the line between fantasy and reality now end for a generation of which one third has never been without television violence and the other generation segment just as surely hooked on its nightly diet of cops and robbers? A s if proving that fantasy and fact are locked together, one ABC journalist could not help telling us in best trans -Pacific tones that the incident had come to an end in "down -town Balgowlah". Was he already dreaming in how many episodes the story could be replayed? Debating whether television is feeding suburban banditry or whether television banditry is only reflecting what is happening in real life goes round in the same circle as the debate on whether breathing is good or bad. But at least with breathing, some have decided that certain forms of television breathing are definitely bad. The argument is inconclusive, it is claimed, because no one is sure when breathing becomes a moral problem. The same dilemma appears to arise over deciding whether banditry is wrong. When there is no moral criterion, it is an empty gesture to plead emotional concern that real bullets are being fired into real people and that real policemen have to make real decisions whereas in TV land it does not matter. The lack of moral standard is no more evident than in the fact that the biggest hazards facing the nightly activity of apprentice bandits is a debate over whether their weapons were harmful. It is apparently irrelevant that some poor shopkeeper was being told that his life is at risk, that he best acquiesce in that fact and give away his money. Shocked surprise that police cars are nightly retrieving stolen property or that shots are going to be fired in the process is a hollow concern if society is now e xpected to accept that bandits, like sugar and salt, are just another of life's hazards. There are cities of the world where life has become cheap, not only in civil war but in gang feudings that leave trails of unsolved killings and violence. The c heapening of life is lesson that is seeping into some levels of Australian society. Banditry is as old as society itself but if we are supposed to have come any distance from solutions of jungle retribution we shall need better standards on which to measure these deeds than whether it all ends in a police shoot-out. Life is not a television serial.
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ALTAR BOYS' TRIP As far as the altar servers at St Mary's Cathedral were concerned the doors of t he sacristy were definitely shut on v ocation as they headed off for their a nnual camp at G uilderton.
Doubts on Xrated movies The WA branch of the Australian Family Association wants the Western Australian government to re-consider the adoption of the proposed uniform Commonwealth censorship code governing t he sale of x -rated video tapes. "We are the tip of the iceberg So far the Queensland government has and we are happy and proud to indicated it will not be chosen to bring justice to the surface for the many thousands adopt the code. have never had a taste of a If the code is adopted, the who or who may have been hearing Australian Family Association is concerned the x-rated eliminated." video tapes will be available This was how Father Brian to people over 18. Gore summed up his feelings to There is however no guame on Monday night during a rantee they will not find their w ay into the hands of direct broadcast on 6KY by phone younger persons. from the warden's office of his Commonwealth customs gaol in the Philippines. regulations came into force "I feel a lot of good will come of on Wednesday allowing hard and may be for Australians too this core video cassettes to be will be more concerned about who landed in Australia. State government must now deter- the situation of poor people in the mine if they will be available rest of the world.
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in local shops. A spokesman for the AFA, Mr Brian Peachey, said the amendment to the Indecent Publications Act on December 5 last enables the WA government to control the sale of x-rated tapes. In a letter to the premier Mr Burke the AFA said "If such material is legally permitted to circulate throughout the community .. albeit sold to those over 18 years .. it will certainly be viewed by children as the rapidly growing number of video players become standardised equipment. "Many children will be introduced to sexual behaviour by watching perverted sexual acts. "Impact of such exposure to degrading and deviant behaviour must result in many children becoming incapable of enjoying the normal sexual relationship which can exist between a man and a woman.
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"We accept it as a challenge from God and hope that we can live up to it. "We are prepared to stay months or a year or so in gaol because we feel this is part of the struggle of the people of Negros for justice. Earlier when I asked Father Gore to summarise the events that had led him to be confined once again in gaol with his co-workers he said: "President Marcos yesterday revoked our house arrest but he was a bit late because we revoked it three weeks ago when we said we could no longer accept house arrest. "Officially they have been forced to recognise our move and say we are in gaol which is where we prefer to be and which is the right place for us to be.
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Upset "He got very upset about that and I am sorry but that's the way things are. "The decision of the judge says we may be deserving of the death sentence so when the battle lines have been drawn the charade has to stop. "We feel anyone who has
had a hand in the case against us will be declared our enemies in this battle. "We have grave doubts about the possibility of a just legal decision after reading the decision of the judge which has no relationship to the court hearings. "Obviously it is a political decision as they have been looking for a political solution by having us deport ourselves, which we refuse to do." Father Gore said there was no intention of appealing to the Supreme Court over this recent decision as that might he an intentional delaying tactic. Instead he wants an immediate hearing of the case. "Maybe the stern (bail) de-
cision was to make us come to a deal but we are adamant there will be no deal where the lives of our co-workers and the witness of the gospel is concerned." Father Gore said although the gaol conditions might shock Australians they had been moved to a bigger cell and they were daily getting food from the diocese via a sister who looks after sick prisoners. They had lots of visits from Legionaries of Mary, from charismatic groups, priests, and many gifts of food which t hey share with other prisoners. "The other day we three priests said Mass for the prisoners and we explained to them we are here because we are helping people like them who find it very hard to get justice in the courts. "Some people here have very sad stories so we feel we can minister here in the gaol and at the same time witness to the corruption of the establishment, especially the courts", he said.
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S YDNEY — Total enrolments in Catholic primary and secondary schools in Sydney in 1983 were an all-time record. The 129,903 enrolments were 2604 above the 1982 figure some 2000 new pupils have already enrolled f or the 1984 school year. Pupil growth for 1984 is spread over the whole of the Archdiocese but was concentrated in the outer western region where 450 students have been enrolled for a new primary school, w ith classes from kindergarten to year 6, t o open at South Penrith. C erdon College at Merrylands, also in the outer western region, has prepared for a pupil enrolment of 1040 as against 984 in 1983 and Gilroy College at Castle Hill will enrol students into Year 11 for the first time. Enrolments are up in all secondary schools in t he outer western region where over the past few years, schools have been opened or developed at South M ount Druitt, Emu Plains, Plumptom and at John Paul II College, Marayong. Almost all the Catholic schools in the region g ained additional p e rmanent accommodation. T here i s also considerable growth in the northern region. The projected rise is 240 pupils at Mater Dei School at Gosford, the n ewest secondary s chool of the Archdiocese. T he Catholic coeducational secondary school at Warriewood is to extend to Year 12, with a pupil increase from 726 to 825 in 1984. O lder established areas of the southern, inner west and eastern r egionshow c onsiderable growth, p articularly in secondary schools.
MELBOURNE — Archbishop Little has criticised the use of donated ovum for in vitro fertilisation, saying the procedure is morally suspect. "It would be insensitive not to rejoice that medical science is working on new ways to enable infertile couples to have their own child," he said last week. "But it would be naive to forget that some of the means to this admirable end would violate principles on which sound law, as well as sound science, must stand if they are to be truly human."
T he archbishop's comment came after the announcement that a woman in her 20's had given birth at the Queen Victoria Medical Centre to a baby boy after being implanted with a fertilised ovum donated by an anonymous 29year-old woman. No one wanted to pass j udgement on an infertile couple who p lanned to avail themselves of one of the w ide range of procedures now open to them, the archbishop said.
Involved "They are involved in a deeply human problem where an emotional c alm cannot be expected. "But all of us must a nswer for the i ntroduction of procedures which affect human beings, erode the dignity of marriage and l eave too many important questions unanswered. "The very procedure by which the child was conceived is morally suspect. "A human being must never be used simply as a means to achieve the purposes of others, no matter how desirable." The archbishop said t hat a whole new dimension in the in vitro debate had been opened up by the use of a donated ovum. "To whom does the child belong? Does a simple government edict solve the matter? Is it the business of law to make such a determination?" A child had the right to be born the true child of a married couple,
CAIRNS: — The Aboriginal and Islander Catholic Council has called on Australian Churches to "apply whatever pressure is necessary on the Australian and Queensland Governments to ensure absolute selfdetermination for Aboriginal reserves."
The resolution was made at the council's 1 1th annual State conference, held in Cairns. Rev Frank Brennan, SJ adviser to the Queensland bishops told the conference - "1984 can be heralded as the year of change for laws and government policy for Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders in Queensland".
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Archbishop Little t hus having an unimpaired sense of identity. "The law should not be seeking to countenance procedures which aim at cheating children whose biological parentage differs from their legal parentage." H e said the IV programme could not be placed in the same category as adoption. " Adoption is a b eautiful human response to a situation which calls for mutual help. Adoption is a r emedy; IVF is a deliberate procedure." The archbishop said that to carry on the IVF programme regardless of the precious and delicate relationships that were at stake would not do.
He said Queensland's proposed legislation, "provided the terms of the legislation and the mode of its administration match the rhetoric, is clearly the stuff of land rights, selfmanagement and selfdetermination.Rev Brennan said land rights was a major issue of the conference. Other resolutions passed at the conference were:
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MELBOURNE — Well known former YCW identity and leading Catholic layman, Mr D an Callahan, died suddenly last Saturday. Mr Callahan, 52, who was secretary of the Melbourne YCW from 1 951-58, was well known throughout the A ustral ian lay apostolate in the 50's and 60's He was active in YCW h ousing, hol iday, s porting and pre marriage education services. He was a member of the Australian YCW d elegation to the S econd Wor ld Congress of the Lay Apostolate in Rome in 1957. A s a commercial caterer at Melville Hall, M oreland, in the 1 960' s and at Sunninghill. Kew, in the 1970's, Mr Callahan cheerfully served the reception centre needs of Catholic families, parishes, schools and lay groups.
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Item POSTER No. 1 GAMES CHILDREN PLAY. Suited INFANTS CLASSES. The poster has no text and is designed for picture talk activities. With teachers' notes, can be used with PRIMARY classes. TEACHERS' NOTES No. 1. Provide information on children at play around the world and the learning that is done through play. Notes also discuss the use of scrap material for toys and other useful items.
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POSTER No. 2. CAMPING ISN'T ALWAYS A HOLIDAY. ( Caption). Suited PRIMARY classes. Text tells the story of an Ethiopian family driven from their home by drought and war.
A DELAI DE — A delaide's Aboriginal Catholic community has restored and renovated the former St Joseph's Catholic Church built 80 years ago in Pine Street, near Hindmarsh Square. For the past three years t he community and volunteers have restored the buildings to provide a chapel, meeting hall, offices, shop and kitchen. Noted black tracker, Mr J immy James from Gerrard Mission near Berri opened the centre last Sunday. Mass has been said for Aborigines at the centre since 1980.
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Killed in surf SYDNEY — The headmaster of St Patrick's Christian Brothers College, Sutherland, New South Wales, was killed when a sailboard struck him in the chest in a surfing accident. He was Brother Maurice Shanahan, 64, who was body-surfing at Terrigal, on the NSW Central Coast, as a young sailboard rider was entering the surf.
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Doubts about sex
Ken Wilson reports on Perth's Charismatic conference
Blueprint points out God's way C ontrary to what many Catholics believed, the Catholic Church was continually attempting to p oint out to its members the blueprint which God had planted in families to l ive the l ife He intended. Marist Father Jack Soulsby told the conference that in the last decade, that Church had published 12 documents on the Christian fami ly with successive popes exhorting Catholics to read the documents. " The documents are the inspired work of the Holy Spirit," Father Soulsby said. "And they contain a lot of riches which are from God."
Published Father Soulsby said since 1973 when a Pontifical committee for the family was established, regular documents have been published concerning many aspects of family life. They spoke of the outreach of the family; the family being a basic cell in society; Christian education of children and religious freedom of the family. "The Church says the crisis in western countries, particularly, has developed from a mentality which stresses materialism, individualism, m oney, action and power." In 1979, the Australian Catholic Social Welfare Commission reported on a national consulation of
the family which received its input from Australian families.
Questions Some of the questions put included: • Christian marriage in modern society; • preparation fot marriage; • the family in all areas; • family life of the aged; • changing roles in married families. "Of all the replies, 25 per cent presented a positive vision," Father Soulsby said. "The remaining 75 p er cent presented problems. "The main problem
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Releases of special guidelines areas dealt with ethnic families, teenagers and one parent families." Father Soulsby said the t wo main problems he encountered in people were the non use of "a fantastic gift of faith" and fear. "As Christians we should have a higher focus than our problems," he said. "He and the power He has given us are bigger than our problems." Father Soulsby said the national report was submitted to the Australian Episcopal Conference and was finally summarised by an international synod of bishops in 1980 and presented to the pope.
A lack of training has left many Christians with major hang-ups about sex in marriage according to a keynote speaker at a recent C hristian conference held in Perth.
In 1981, Pope John Paul II made a major statement on the role of the Christian family in the modern world. The apostolic exhortation was called Familiaris Consortio.
Mr Kevin Horgan, who is c hairman of the national Catholic Charismatic Renewal and overall head coordinator of the Bethel Covenant Community, said sex should be viewed as a "no strings attached" gift from God.
Father Soulby said the Church was both teacher and mother. As a teacher she states clearly her doctrine. As a mother, she demonstrates her pastoral concern by preparing people better for marriage and by supporting them in their marriage. Since that document, many Australian parishes had taken up the pope's lead to prepare programmes.
The bible was very specific about sex in marriage. Mr Horgan said, quoting I Corinthians 7:3-5. Each spouse had a duty to satisfy the other's needs. "Society secs sex in a totally different way from Christians." he said. "For Christians. sex is for procreation and conjugal enjoyment. "Many couples are frightened to discuss sex openly because of a lack of training which has resulted in hang-
Some of these included, how to organise a parish discussion groups and building a Christian household.
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The programmes were available to any parish.
Father Soulsby speaks from the pulpit at St Mary's cathedral
One of the most misunderstood scriptural passages — dealing with wives submitting to husbands — provided a key to successful Christian marriage, a recent Christian conference held in Perth was told. Husband and wife Kevin and Suellen Horgan, who have been married for 17 years and have seven children, both referred to the passage (Ephesians 5:22-25) in talks they gave at the conference. The conference theme was Evangelisation through the Christian family.
Submission no invitation to be dominant
Mr Horgan said husbands needed to recognise that the "submission" by wives was not an open invitation for husbands to "lord it over their wives". "Part of the passage talks about husbands loving their wives as Christ loved the Church," he said. "And Christ loved the Church so much He died for it." Mr Horgan said God wanted husbands to be pastors of their wives and children. "It is an awesome responsibility that God has given husbands but He also has given His grace to allow husbands to carry out the things they must do, he said. Husbands had a responsibility to bring their wife to a personal maturity and holiness in the Lord. This was done by pastoring them, not by dominating them. A husband should want his wife to love God more than the more she anything else loves God the more a marriage blossoms. "As I bring my wife closer to God I experience all the fruits that God intended for my marriage." Mr Horgan said. "A husband should always be seeking what God wants for his wife. "And a wife has a responsibility to honour and respect what her husband is saying." The principle of submission by wives was to submit to
"It needs to be worked at rather than kept in our cupboard of worries and anxieties." Mr Horgan said a lot of pain in marriages could be erased if spouses adopted a mutual commitment to be sexually available. "A husband doesn't abuse his wife in any way, but he uses the gift of sex as God intended. A husband needs t o be loving, caring and sensitive. "A wife also needs to adopt those qualities and guard against commonly held views of society.
Seek the Christian example their husbands in the things which are of God and not to submit to things which are immoral. Mr Horgan said there were many areas husbands needed to recognise in order to bring their wives to God "as a spotless bride". They included: • a need to express love to her as God's daughter. • to bring her to a full understanding of herself. • to establish and support her in her proper authority in the family. • to protect and care for her and bring her into a secure place as a wife and mother.
Problems • to regularly communicate with her -- on a daily basis - her problems and fears and to encourage and affirm her in her role as a wife and mother. A husband needed to court his wife "always" making his loving thoughts for her a reality. It was good for a husband to buy flowers for his wife or take her out to dinner for no reason other than "I love you". Mrs Horgan said a Christian woman's response to the
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passage was to "put aside my desire to do things my way". "I have found I don't lose any dignity with the Father," she said. "I don't feel I lose anything being submissive. "In return, I am cherished. My husband cares for me, directs me and shoulders responsibility for me. "He calls me forth to he a Christian woman and I don't resent that. "I believe my husband has an anointing to lead our family and I see his shepherding as nothing but an experience of love." Mrs Horgan said while she agreed women had been "put down" by men, she did not agree that scripture characterised men, particularly in the O ld Testament , as chauvinistic. Proverbs 1:8 is advice to a son to respect his mother. Sirach 3:4 tells of riches for t hose who honour their mother. "These are just two of many scriptural references of the dignity of woman." Mrs Horgan said. In her marriage. Mrs Horgan said she saw her husband as the "chairman of directors" who had the vision of where the "company" needed to go. She saw herself as the managing director who took on the mind of the chairman.
"I want to do things just as he would want them to be done." she said. "I see my position as one with authority which I use to support my husband. "I need to accept my husband as he is and if changing is required I need to let the Lord do it."
Needs Mrs Horgan said Christian women needed: • to let their husbands be men of God freely. • to offer wisdom in a presenting way rather than a nagging way. • to teach her children to honour and respect their father. • to communicate with husbands at an appropriate time and not let "hassles" build into resentments. • to support husbands in their role. • to be attentive to their needs. "I want to build unity in our family," she said. "I have a responsibility and an authority to he peace making and peace keeping." A Christian woman was not a passive person. She was free to offer her wisdom and be a vital pastoral partner with her husband for the family.
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DATELINE. . . overseas news roundup
Briefs: riNEW YORK — Sister Mary Paul
I—I McKenna who led the first group of Maryknoll Sisters to their pioneer mission assignment in China in 1921 has died aged 95 at the Maryknoll Nursing Home. She was a member of the Maryknoll missionary society for 67 years. Sister McKenna entered Maryknoll in 1917, and in 1921 was selected to head a group of six sisters sent to China. They arrived in a country in turmoil, with warlords preying on the cities and no government capable of unifying the huge nation Chou En-lai, a future premier, was a young revolutionary Marxist teacher in the south, and Mao Tse-tung, future leader of the communist revolution and government, was just beginning to organise peasants in the north. The sisters rented quarters in Hong Kong Under Sister McKenna's leadership, they eventually had 22 missions in south China, including orphanages, dispensaries, homes for the blind, creches for abandoned babies and formation programmes for new Christians. C
ROME — The Caritas Rome municipality restaurant for the poor is a result of a Rome diocese meeting held three years ago In an attempt to meet these needs, two other restaurants for the poor will soon be opened One will be at Ostia, Rome's seaside, which some now call Ostiagrad, as many Russian Jews lodge there while waiting to migrate, mainly to the United States Caritas has also instituted a free medical service for the poor and plans to establish a deposit for the poor who are forced to carry all day their few belongings with them
1 1DUBLIN — Three hundred people took part in an anti-abortion procession through the streets of Dublin, Ireland. The procession, organised by the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, was held to commemorate those killed by abortion in Britain last year. People walked from the Garden of R emembrance to the government buildings where a wreath was laid by a handicapped woman, Anne O'Brien, and a young girl called Cara Jameson. According to Patsy Buckley of SPUC about 4000 Irish girls sought abortions in England last year. 7
EiMANAGUA — Bishop Salvator 1.--JSchiester, who was praised by President Reagan for his role in helping at least 1000 Nicaraguan Indians flee their homeland shortly before Christmas, said he will return to Nicaragua, where he has been a missionary for 38 years. CI
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niMEXICO CITY — The story of our Lady L_Iof Guadalupe has been translated from the original Aztec language, Nahuati, into English by Trappist Father Martinus Cawley. There have been several translations in Spanish, but Father Cawley said the new version goes back to the mid-181h century original story of the Indian Juan Dago, telling of Mary's several appearances to him near Mexico City.
HARARE (NC) — The Zimbabwean Catholic bishops, in their first pastoral statement of 1984, have pledged to support a socialism based on Christian values and to oppose Marxism. "In Zimbabwe socialism is understood to mean equality regardless of race, creed or sex, an equitable distribution of land, health care and education for all regardless of income; it means fair wages, a life-style of self-reliance as well as of sharing, the promotion of cooperative ways of production and a national policy of reconcilia-
'To the extent the government has in fact begun to implement these policies, we have expressed o ur ful l support, - said the statement.
"For us as Christians, only with God's help can we transform a society," it said.
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PEKING — A bishop and priest have been arrested in China. Bishop Fan Xueyan of the Baoding diocese in Hebei Province, 76, was recently sentenced to 10 years in prison. The "crimes" of which he was accused are: secretly ordaining priests and bishops, accepting foreign currency and making contact with the Vatican. Little is known about the activities of Bishop Fan. The August 1983 China Study Project Bulletin listed him as "inactive", which suggests he may have refused to associate h imself with the Catholic Patriotic Movement.
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CHICAGO (NC) — Legalised abortion on demand may be the clearest case of "disregard for the sanctity and equality of human lives which is a characteristic sickness of our age," said Cardinal Joseph L. Bernardin.
"We acknowledge socialism has inherited some elements from Christianity, but we also know some forms of socialism do not agree with Christianity,- it added.
ROME (NC) -- Plans by the Vatican and the city of Rome to set up a campground for 35,000 youths expected to attend Holy Y ear ceremonies in April have been criticised by environmentalists and politicians but supported by the communist city council. Opponents have claimed the plan would snarl traffic, cause a massive clean-up problem and strip one of Rome's largest parks of its grass. The city in December approved the request by the Pontifical Council for the Laity to use the 135-acre Pineta Sacchetti Park near the Vatican for a "tent city" to house the youths during the April 11-15 activities. The communist-led city government, including Mayor Ugo Vetere, has defended its decision to allow the youths to use the park.
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"Atheistic Marxism, on the other hand, attempts to prove man can accomplish God's work on earth all by himself," said the statement, signed by the seven members of the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops' Conference.
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"We do not deny the existence of conflict between the different classes and between rich and poor nations. But we cannot accept strife and conflict by themselves are posit i veforcesfor transformation," they said.
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The story of an elderly Guatemalan women weeping over the corn she spilled sets the stage for our series this week. How, it is asked, does the Sunday Mass point toward that woman and her hunger? To answer that question is to discover how liturgy is linked to life; how prayer and action in the world are related. Katharine Bird tells the story of the woman. The liturgy possesses a vision of how things might be for humanity, she indicates. Ms. Bird is associate editor of the Know Your Faith series.
Father Michel's legacy
"The liturgy is the best evidence of the church's understanding of human nature." Those were Father Virgil Michel's words 60 years ago. He was convinced that the liturgy the church's worship speaks to the deepest human needs.
Father Virgil Michel (above) who died in 1938 was a Benedictine monk and philosopher at St. John's Abbey in central Minnesota. He played a large role in laying foundations in the United States for renewal of the church's liturgy. He founded the magazine Orate Fratres, now called Worship, founded the Liturgical Press, taught philosophy, lectured and gave retreats, wrote extensively and edited many publications. Long after his death at age 48, Vatican Council II incorporated many of Father Michel's dreams into its liturgical reforms.
Father Michel was a Benedictine monk and philosopher at St. John's Abbey in central Minnesota. He played a large role in laying foundations in the United States for renewal of the church's liturgy. Interestingly, he saw a real connection between w orship and action to build up a just world. Father Michel journeyed to Europe in 1922 to study philosophy. He was in his early 30s then. In Europe, he became excited by what he observed in some centers that were encouraging fuller involvement by the people in liturgy. He would go on to stress the reality of the Mystical Body. viewing Christians as branches of the one vine of Christ. Father Mi-
By Lee A. Hanley chel felt this image could lead to understanding of the responsibility of all Christians as Christ's members. For Father Michel, liturgy could even be a model for such social action as the founding of credit unions. In light of his experiences in Europe, Father Michel began sending recommendations about the liturgy to the abbot of St John's. He proposed the launching of a liturgical library and a new maga7ine on the liturgy. He warned his abbot that the work proposed would mean "what every big thing means — work and manpower." But as his excitement built. Father Michel received neither e ncouragement nor discouragement. W hen Abbot Alcuin Deutsch finally gave his approval. Father Michel
wrote that it "kept me awake for the greater part of two nights," and caused him to oversleep the third — Good Friday. Returning home in the autumn of 1925, Father Michel went about his work with rare energy. He founded the magarine Orate Fratres, now called Worship. He assembled a corps of collaborators from within and beyond the abbey, founded the Liturgical Press, taught philosophy, lectured and gave retreats, wrote extensively and edited many publications. Above all, he thought it important to pursue liturgical renewal from within the church. His expectations were tempered by realism. Father Michel e xpected change to be slow -- even slight — and cautioned his collaborators that the fruits of their efforts would likely await
"In the liturgy the divine story of creation and redemption is told and retold; that revelation is reinforced by ritual patterns which communicate Christian meaning and values in verbal and non-verbal ways. As a result a Christian vision of life is shared. It is a vision framed andpermeated by faith. In celebrating the liturgy, Christians do not leave their everyday world and responsibilities behind." (From the November 1983 statement of the U.S. bishops commemorating the 20th anniversary of Vatican ll's Constitution of the Liturgy.) "Because the loaf of bread is one, we, many though we are, are one body for we all partake of the one loaf." (I Cor. 10-17) "If we honestly symbolise the meaning of Christ's death for us in the Eucharist, then we willparticipate in the service it requires." (Father Regis Duffy, OFM, in the book, "Real Presence." — Harper and Row) "How does the Christian community link the s ymbol of abundance and service, which the Eucharist is, with the need of God's world all around us?" (Father Regis Duffy, OFM, in the book, "Real Presence." — Harper and Row) The real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist "permits us to see the need of God's people with the eyes of the Master." (Father Regis Duffy, OFM, in the book, "Real Presence," — Harper and Row) "Mother Teresa of Calcutta: The Love of Christ," edited by Georges Gorree and Jean Barbier. "Our Eucharist is incomplete if it does not make us love and serve the poor," says Mother Teresa in this book — a book about the NobelPeace Prize winner whose way of making peace through her work among the poor in India is known throughout the world. The book organises words drawn from her speeches, letters and other statements about the work she pursues and its meaning. The link of prayer and action in the life of Mother Teresa, who views the poor as God's gift, comes into view here. (Harper andRow,10 E. 53rdSt., New York, NY 10022. $7.95) 8
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reaping by another generation. His accomplishments in just five years were overwhelming, but overwhelming for him physically as well. By 1930 he was exhausted. He suffered terrib 1 e headaches; his eyesight failed so he could neither celebrate Mass nor read his breviary. A fter a year of enforced recuperation, he was assigned to work in one of t he abbey's missions where he showed skill as a pastor — and, incidentally, as a deer hunter. In 1933 he returned as dean to St John University. But by 1938 the once again had worked himself to exhaustion. He developed pneumonia, further infection set in and he died at age 48. The decisons of Vatican Coucil II 20 years ago realised Father Michel's dream for the liturgy. Had he lived, he would have rejoiced. But it's not likely he would have ceased work. The liturgy, he would argue, is dynamic. And he would have rejoiced. But it's not likely he would have ceased work. The liturgy, he would argue, is dynamic. And he would have seen more t hat could be done to encourage the people's participation in worship and to develop understanding of its potential for all of life and for the world.
The missionary saw the Indian walking along a Guatemala road balancing a bowl on her head. She stumbled dropping the bowl and corn scattered over the roadside. Crying, the woman bent down to gather the corn kernelby kernelinto her apron. To her the corn represented life — for it was all she had to eat for the next two weeks.
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social justice • Early one dawn, t he missionary was driving down a mountain road i n Guatemala when he caught sight of a dignified e lderly Indian woman. She was walking along, a bowl balanced on her head. Then t he woman s tumbled and dropped the bowl, and the corn scattered over the r oadside. The woman, crying, bent down to gather up the corn kernel by kernel into her apron. For her, the corn represented life — it was all she had to eat for the next two weeks. Die priest stopped and helped the woman collect the grains. Then he continued on to the airport where he caught a plane home. Many hours later he arrived at his home in western Minnesota. This was at the time of the grain harvest and the harvest was plentiful -130 bushels to every acre. Driving along the priest was stuck by the sight of the grain elevators, higher than his head and full to the brim. The contrast between the two scenes — both experienced the same day — was staggering, the missionary reported. B ishop Raymond Lucker of Minisota told that story during a seminar in Washington, D.C.
True of false? How would you judge the following statement? "The Sunday Mass begins when the servers, readers and priest process to the altar; it concludes when, together, they depart from the altar after the final Mass prayers." Could the answer be "true and false"? The Mass does have specific points for beginning and concluding. Yet it doesn't conclude the way other events in life conclude — like classes or ballgames or workdays. Part of the mystery of the Mass is how it continues — how it connects with the whole of life. But what does this really mean? What are the connections of liturgy and life? Consider, for one thing, how the Mass appeals not just to people's minds, their thinking — though it does that too. It appeals to Christians as whole persons — people with goals and aspirations; people with hopes and needs. The Mass is meant to be the kind of prayer that helps shape lives. It • fosters hopes; • refreshes perspectives on life; • nourishes the ability to enter the lives of others; • casts light on the connections among people. It such ways — and in other ways too — it gets into the centre of life. It reaches into all of life. To explain the connection of liturgy and life, some think it helps to speak of the vision of life the liturgy reflects. The liturgy points toward humanity's fullest potential — toward what could be. At the same time, it intends to remind all those present of what they already are and of what this means. Some experts think that to capture the connection of liturgy and life, it is valuable to think of the liturgy itself as a means by which Christ's work in the world continues. Some characteristics of Chirst's work, they would add, are the work of healing others who are broken, nourishing others who hunger and reaching out to the whole world. This, then, is the kind of "work" that gets under way when priest and servers and readers process to the altar on Sunday. Of course, it is the kind of work that doesn't conclude when the final prayers of the Mass do. It is the kind on work that continues in the efforts of Christians to heal and nourish the world and its people.
bishop said a New Ulm family "adopts" a village By Katharine Bird family in a financial way by contributing $700 a year. The people of the The woman is symbolic of surrection of Jesus. And, the bishop indicat- diocese also have helped all those in the world who have so many things going ed, this is not a nebulous v illagers build three against them, he said. The sort of unity. It unites the schools, train catechists woman was elderly, an reality of the Guatemalan and learn new techniques Indian and poor in a na- woman's life — her pain of farming, the bishop tion where a minority of and frustration, perhaps said. These images and reflecthe people owns all the her anger — and the realtions suggest that the productive land and ity of our own lives. Bishop Lucker cauti- Eucharist holds a vision w here Indians are oned, however, that "peo- for the world. Msgr. John oppressed. The story flashed into ple need to be open to the Egan spoke of this in a my mind as I prepared to power of the Eucharist." r ecent address. Long write this article. For me, For the story doesn't end known for his work in the its symbols of corn and simply with receiving field of social action. grain -- food for life — Jesus in the Eucharist. Msgr. Egan is now direcwere reminders of the Christians also receive a tor of the archdiocesan Eucharist. "I am the bread message "to bring him Office of Human Relations and Ecumenism in of life," Jesus had said. To into our lives." E xplaining what that Chicago. In the liturgy, he me, that always had meant that the Eucharist implies, Bishop Lucker said, there is a basic realis a very special form of recalled that, at the end of isation "that we are createach Mass, the priest ed to be mutually nourishment. A woman far away, weep- turns to the congregation dependent. to enhance ing over the spilled corn and says: "Go in peace to one another's existence." This is a vision of unity she so badly needed, was a serve the world." For the bishop and peo- and of responsibility, he reminder of the Eucharist. But, I wondered, can that ple in the Diocese of New indicated. It reaches t hought be turned Ulm. the instruction to go beyond those who are around? Is the Mass also a and serve the world takes gathered for a particular reminder for Christians of form in the assistance they Mass in a particular place. that woman and of others provide to 7,000 poor peoIsn't it because of this like her whose needs are ple in San Lucas Toliman. vision that the Mass can so profound? a village in the Guatema- be said to point toward I decided to put that lan highlands. Bishop the woman who wept over q uestion to Bishop Lucker told how. 20 years the kernels of corn she had Lucker. He paused, then ago, aware of the over- lost? This is part of the responded: There is a whelming needs of the mystery of the Eucharist: s ense in which that poor. people in New Ulm The woman's hunger and woman and people like as made this task their per- the nourishment offered in the Eucharist are are united in the Eucha- sonal responsibility. In some instances, the linked. rist, in the death and re-
Disconnected in Corinth
There is a fascinating scripture story about St Paul and the people in the Greek city of Corinth. It illustrates how important it was for early Christians t o recognise that the bonds among them as a p eople made a real difference. The Mass expresses our unity as God's people and makes us a community. But it is not magic in this sense. This is where the problem St Paul had to face in Corinth comes in. As was the custom in those days, the Eucharist was celebrated in a home in the context of a meal. All the people were supposed to contribute to the meal. All were to share in it too. But, it seems, the wealthier community members would arrive early, not having had to work. They brought gourmet foods and vintage wines. These people would proceed to glut themselves and get drunk. When the poorer people finally arrived with their day-old bread and common wine, they were embarrassed and hurt to find their supposed brothers and sisters already wellfed and all too well-drunk. The meal which was supposed to express their unity became an occasion and division. for
Paul takes them to task. The reason is that they are doing all this "without recognising the body" (1 Corinthians 1 1:29). The body he refers to is the community. During the Mass today, the priest says, "Pray my brothers and sisters, that our sacrifice may be acceptable to God the almighty Father." This terminology reflects an understanding found in Scripture. The liturgy is the highest form of worship. but it is not merely the worship of individuals who happen to be in the same place at the same time. It is the worship of a community. That is why Luke summarised the life of the first disciples in these words: "They devoted themselves to the apostles' instruction and the communal life, to the breaking of bread and the prayers . . . They went to the temple area together every day, while in their homes they broke bread" (Acts 2:42, 46). The disciples were a community. The scripture accounts
of the Eucharist's origins also suggest the importance of the community. "This is my blood, the blood of the covenant, to be poured out on behalf of many" (Mark 14:24). The accounts speak of the offering of Christ's blood in connection with his sacrifice on the cross and the establishing of a (new) covenant — the forming of a new community, a new people of God (see also Matthew 26:28; 1 Corinthians 1 1:25). It is reminiscent of what happened at Sinai, when God entered into a relationship with the Israelites that made them in a special way his own people. The scripture background is a reason why the Second Vatican Council could say of the liturgy: "The goal is that all who are made children of God by faith and baptism should come together to priase God in the midst of his church, to take part in the sacrifice and to eat the Lord's Supper."
By Father John J Castelot
Two years ago, a multicultural programme in Catholic schools of the Cleveland diocese brought fourth-graders from a predominantly white suburban area and children from a predominantly black inner-city area together to celebrate Mass. In preparation for the Mass, teachers told the children that to call God "Father" meant they were all brothers and sisters; in approaching the altar, they were asked to hold each other's hands. .'sot surprisingly, the children were enthusiastic, unafraid and receptive of one another. The liturgy was both warm and expressive. . 1n unexpected result of this liturgy, however, was that parents who were present came to a sudden. new understanding of the meaning of the .Mass. A n awareness stirred in them that because of the Eucharist, people are called to be one family — but not just within church walls. They began to examine their own fears. Many started to search for ways in which they could translate this new understanding into action in their own lives. Benedictine Sister Christine Fladimiroff was coordinator of the programme and spoke with me about it. For her. this experience clearly illustrates the relationship of Christian worship and Christian action on behalf of the world. If that connection is seen, liturgy has the power to transform not only individuals. but society itsel/i she believes. He celebrate togetherness around the table, hut when we go out we must be pairtfully aware that there are people who are not always welcome everywhere. - said Sister Fladimiroff, who serves as secretary for education in the Diocese of Cleveland. Similarly, we "hear about the lion and the Iamb lying down together" and we exchange greetings of peace. But one glance at the daily newspaper tells us our world is far from that reality. "Our worship coexists in a world that is unjust, where evidence of sin is all around us." Sister Vladimiroff said. Durin %lass Christians
By Cindy Liebhart celebrate what already has been accomplished — delivery from slavery into freedom, from death into life. But "we also are given a hint of what still needs to be accomplished," the religious educator explained. "Liturgy keeps that vision alive. It is a source of energy, direction and wisdom." The liturgy is not a political rally, Sister Iladimiroff said. Still, the readings, prayers. songs and actions at Mass powerfully remind the people of the callto create the kindof social conditions that make it evident God is with humanity. .4s a church that worships, "we are working to bring about the kingdom, that is, working for justice. What we do during Mass is what it could look like on the outside," she said. Benedictine Sister .Mary Collins also sees that the call to work for justice stems directly from the memory of the life, death and resurrection of Jesus — what is celebrated in the Eucharist. Christians see through the example of Jesus how God's action to set things right in the world is carried out, said Sister Collins. She heads the Department of Religion andReligious Education at the Catholic University of America. But this is also a "dangerous memory" for us, she explained. "He want to go to Eucharist to feel good, comforted and protected," Sister Collins said. But the eucharistic celebration signals that "contrary to expectations, God does not protect his chosen ones from suffering." They must suffer for the world. For her, the eucharistic cup points toward an understanding that the call to work for justice might require sacrifice and suffering. "Jesus asks, 'Can you drink of the cup Jam to drink of?' Trying to answer that question in the affirmative can leadpeople to look at the ways in which they could offer themselves for the wellbeing of others — their families, their communities and their world." she stated.
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Family team scoring for community This is a story of teamwork by a Catholic married couple, Michael and Patricia Hegney of Lesmurdie The male member of the duo insisted, with perfect justification, the article follow such lines because togetherness has marked their endeavours during the years to bring other couples happily together in a good Catholic ambience. Michael insists they really are a stay-athome couple. But both agreed Patricia's ability to communicate helpfully with people is a Godgiven gift that must be exercised agreement that has led to them spending many e venings and weekends away from home.
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But these absences from the domestic hearth by no means connote neglect of their children. They have made a point of involving daughter Melanie and sons David and Stephen in their activities_ With their parents, the youngsters attend and help at all sorts of gatherings and have become deeply interested in the work of their mother and father From now on in this story, therefore, please read Patricia in addition to spokesman Michael where appropriate.
It was attendance at a Movement For a Better World retreat in 1974 that triggered in the Hegneys a new awareness of their f aith, an awareness that found a practical outlet at a Marriage Encounter weekend in 1976 when they acceded to a request to join o ne of the movement's teams — work in which they were heavily involved until the beginning of this year. The couple feel it was the hand if God that led Michael to apply successfully for a job as an electrical engineer with Hamersley Iron at Karratha in 1977. They arrived there about the same time as the Presentation nuns who were to run the new St Paul's primary school, built through the efforts of parish priest, Father Maurice Carse, a latevocation man who had been a wartime bomber pilot and a fterwards flew with Qantas
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Michael James Hegney — electrical engineer, Lesmurdie parishioner and a leading figure in various Catholic "encounter" movements — was born at Subiaco on May 31, 1944. His wife Patricia (nee Hart) was educated at St Mary's School at Leederville and in that area started a youth group which became the Leederville YCW of which she became president while Michael was president of the Subiaco YCW. It was these roles they met in 1956. It was a meeting that led to their marriage in 1968. Michael was taught by the Brigidine nuns and the Marist Brothers at Subiaco a nd went to St Patrick's Technical School in Perth before serving an apprenticeship as an electrical fitter with the WAGR (now Westrail) from 1960-65 during which he won an award for being the most outstanding apprentice.
By dint of night-school study he gained a diploma of electrical engineering from the Perth Technical College in 1967. Later he again burnt the midnight oil to gain the Bachelor of applied Science degree at WAIT and membership of the Institution of Engineers of Australia. In addition to all this, he is also a licensed electrical contractor. He was a draftsman and then an engineer with a firm of consulting engineers from 1966-77, worked for Hamersley Iron for 18 months at Karratha and joined his present organisation consulting electrical engineers Chase, Campbell and Drew as an associate engineer. Michael and Patricia have a daughter Melanie (13), who attends St Brigid's at Lesmurdie, and two sons, David (11) and Stephen (6), who are both pupils of Mary's Mount primary
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A regular feature By BOB BOYLE So the school, the nuns and the Hegneys were new to the town The couple immediately became involved with the school, of whose P and F Michael was elected president He was also on the school board and the parish council Marriages were frequent casualties in the North, so in an effort to stop the rot the couple worked with Father Carse and parish priests of neighbouring areas to organise three Marriage Encoun ter weekends attended by people from Tom Price, Paraburdoo, Wickham, Port Hedland, Dampier, Roebourne and Goldsworthy
The work was aided by the happy coincidence, or perhaps Divine direction, that led another Marriage Encounter team couple. Veronica and Peter Dymond, to spend at Karratha six of the 1 8 months the Hegneys were there. Peter is also an electrical engineer. The two couples had been on the same Marriage Encounter team in Perth. they are still almost next-door neighbours at Lesmurdie, and they were next-door neighbours at Karratha. In addition to the Marriage Encounter work, the couples became heavily involved in such activities as raising money for St Paul's and imparting catechetical instruction at the Karratha High School. St Paul's was the first private school in any of the new mining towns. Initially the Presentation nuns, who never moved out of the convent without wearing their full habit, aroused c onsiderable curiosity among the rougher element i n the frontier town's population. But in quick time they won over to their side every stratum. Playing sport had been the only way in which the townspeople had got together, but if you weren't a sport you were out on a limb The residents saw St Paul's was filling this gap and all — Catholic and non-Catholic alike -- got together behind the school's endeavours in welcome communal effort
There were some amusing episodes Those who ran the local speedway, for instance, agreed to donate the entire gate receipts of the meeting to the school fund provided the nuns drove in one of the races. The Presentation sisters entered into the spirit of the thing, and big crowds gathered whenever the flying nuns were at the wheel of the souped-up speedcars The town's new-found community spirit brought great amity between the State school P and C and the St Paul's P and F. A mong the events arranged was a hockey match between the mothers of the pupi ls at the respective schools. The P and C ladies were surprised to see, dressed in full Presentation habit, a team of nuns representing St Paul's emerge from a vehicle to start the match. The circumspection with which the wondering State school mums treated the nuns in the early stages of the game led to St Paul's having piled up a big lead by half-time However, when the game resumed one of the black clad figures was heard to drop a most un-nun-like remark. The P and C team woke up to the fact they had been had and applied the previouslymissing pressure with a v engeance. St Paul 's needed almost every goal of its early lead to fall across the line winners. The P and F women, with the complicity of the amused sisters, had decked themselves out in just about every spare bit of nuns' gear at the school.
MN.0 ,r/t4 The post -match festivities of the two teams were uproarious. Of such is northern camaraderie built. Michael and Patricia have been in teams of 13 marriage Encounter weekends -- two at Bunbury, four in Perth, three at Karratha, and one each at Esperance, Geraldton, Alice Springs and Darwin. "Join ME and see the world,- they laugh. In 1980 they became in-
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volved in the youth programme called Choice, of which they were state coordinators for about two years. The Choice programme was written by the priest who inspired Marriage Encounter. In 1982 they entered the Engaged Encounter field — another offshoot of ME — which is occupying a lot of their time now. They have learnt that of 1,400 recent marriages in the Church in WA, only about 50 per cent of the couples had gone to structured marriage-preparation courses. Of these about 500 had attended the Centrecare one-day course and 100 the E ngage Encounter weekend. In the next 12 months, E ngaged Encounter — which works closely with Centrecare — expects to give courses to about 140 couples. An average of 20 couples is now attending its weekends, but the big problem is to get more young married couples
onto the Engaged Encounter teams. The WA programme was set up by a Melville married couple, Joanne and John O'Neill, who brought the scheme from their native America. WA was the first place in Australia to start the movement, which has now spread to other states. It is difficult to know how they find the time, but the Hegneys are also most active in Lesmurdie parish activities. Well, there must be some truth in the saying that if you want something done go to a busy man (couple).
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A story of teamwork by a Catholic married couple, Michael and Pat ricia Hegn ey of Lesmurdie.
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Second WA Loreto nun in high position
A true leader in education Western Australia's Loreto Community can be doubly proud following the appointment of Sister Denise Desmarchelier, IBVM to the Commonwealth Schools' Commission. Her nomination to the three-year term comes hot on the heels of Sister Veronica Brady's appointment to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation board last year. Sister Denise, a dedicated educationalist and principal of John X XIII College since 1979, is delighted with her selection both professionally and as a woman religious active in the community. It is the first time a nun has been asked to s erveon t he commission. She was one of three appointments made recently by the Minister for Education and Youth Affairs, Senator Susan Ryan. The others are Professor Ronald Sackville, a parent actively involved in the nongovernment schools sector as a co-chairman of the Australian Co-ordinating Committee of Jewish Day Schools; He was Dean of the Faculty of Law of the University of New South Wales before taking up his present position as chairman of the New South Wales Law Reform Commission. Mr Douglas Swan, Director General of Education in New South Wales, who has had a distinguished career in education as a teacher and an administrator. Senator Ryan said the appointment of three such distinguished educationists significantly strengthened
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Pupils at the John XXIII school at Claremont the commission. It also reflected the importance the government attached to the role of education in shaping the nation's future Sister Denise obviously stands ready to meet such expectations and says she takes with her, in her advisory capacity to the commission, her fundamental belief in the value of education.
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"I would hope that because I come from a non-government school background I won't be seen as necessarily having a partisan approach. "The Schools' Commission is for all schools and all children. . perhaps I bring a particular background, a particular expertise but I have had a great deal of experience in many areas of education." From the little two -nun school in rural Ballow where she began her education to Loreto Convent, Kirribilli, Sydney and teaching stints in schools both big and small and areas both rural and metropolitan, she has, she says, formed a background which is wider than any that could be dismissed as 'just Catholic.' "I've had experience in both day and boarding schools and understand the problems of the isolated child," she said.
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As a member of the Catholic Education Commission in Victoria and through the activities of her order, she has gained experience of disadvantaged schools and has always maintained active interest and involvement in parent and teacher bodies wherever she has been. Such community and professional involvement is impressive; a member of the Association of Heads of Independent Girls Schools of Australia; member of the Ballarat Regional In-service
Education Committee from 1973-74; members of State Planning and Finance Committees in WA and Victoria, foundation vice president and later president of Ballarat Regional Council for Educational Administration; f oundation member and later president of the Ballarat Regional Pastoral Care Committee; member of the Headmasters Conference of Australia; Fellow of the Australian College of Education; member of the Working Party for the WA State inquiry into Teacher Education (Vickery Committee) 197980; chairman of the Special Groups Sub-Committee of the Committee of Inquiry into Education in WA (Beazley Committee) from 1983. . . The list could go on but serves mainly to measure the great depth of her professional and personal concern with education. More than anything she wants to be seen for her overall role in education. She is enthusiastic about the role of the commission which holds two-day meetings, on average, once every four to five weeks. While recognising any such government body must always be mindful of economic factors and the Minister receiving the advice will in turn be influenced by government expenditure and political expediency, she feels that the commission plays and innovative and important role. "Broadly speaking the commonwealth involvement in education relates to recurrent funding, capital funding
and programmes," she said "Over the years this has been channelled to library resources, professional development and areas like school to work transition. " The most recent innovation has been a 'participation and equity programme."
"What this means is many facotrs may prohibit a community from offering adequate education . . . it may b e finances, it may be distance. 'This programme will look at making funds available to ensure all children have 'equity in participation' in the schooling process. "During the years, the commission has taken many leads. "One important one was in the area of professional development for teachers. "Funds were made available initially and that in turn created a momentum which brought greater awareness and acceptance. "The funding created a level of availability and accessibility.. . . the end result is now many schools are prepared to devote some of their own funds to the professional development of staff. "I think the Schools' Commission has to be lateral in its thinking. "It must think ahead and anticipate direction but it must also respond to need," she said. It's an attitude no doubt.
successfully applied to John XXIII judging by its formidable reputation within the community. For Sister Denise it is time to smile and say she would hope John XXIII was the ideal school. In defining the 'ideal., she says, as a religious, such a school must have a religious, spiritual component. "I accept not everyone has the same value and, outside of that, would expect the same criteria to apply," she said. 'The school should be a happy, ordered environment withing which the child can grow to participate across the intellectual, spiritual (different from religius), physical and cultural spectrum with an emphasis on mutual r e s pe c ta nd encouragement. And how large a part does money play in achieving that ideal?
She said 'The critical factor in any school is the teacher and the level of caring and personal competency of that teacher. 'The point at which that teacher is overburdened with class numbers, and we don't have to go very far back to find classes of 40, 50, 60 or 80. "I'm not prepared to say that a class should be 20, 30 or 40 but there is certainly a point beyond which the teacher can't give the level
of appropriate caring and guidance. "That may relate to the numbers, or it may relate to the range of activities available and obviously finance plays a part in both." The ideal school, she says, rests largely on its teachers as the critical factor. 'The teachers must have cohesion, commitment to the ethos of the school, a sense of professional pride in the teaching role and they must also have conditions under which they can best function. "It needn't be the most up to date room but cramped, uninviting classrooms make it harder to develop the enthusiasm of the child and don't lend themselves to flexibility of activity. "At the same time bare asphalt, no trees and peeling paint make it hard for the child to appreciate its environment and to develop selfworth. She readily admits asphalt and no trees were a fact of life for many of today's adults, along with cramped classrooms and overworked teachers. Those adults survived relatively unscathed, she says. But it is important to mark the changes in society. What was acceptable 'at a pinch' then, may be totally unacceptable today. Her own education had its share of pluses and minuses. It was a reasonably adequate education for her, but not one necessarily suited to today's child. • Cont page 16
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Some years ago the English poet Edwin Brock wrote a poem called. "Five Ways to Kill a Man". It finishes: These are, as I began, Cumbersome ways to kill a man. Simpler, direct, and much more neat is to see that he is living somewhere in the middle of the twentieth century and leave him there.' Father Steele, lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne looks at man's dark history, and his habit of chronicling it. ". . . and all those humble millions of sentences in which we journalise our lives to one another." He remarks, 'These hold the pass against a lethal
dismay. They exorcise the demons of silence. They give us a future." In tribute to George Orwell's warning against the diminution of language which kills cognition, he titles his talk. "1984 — Nightmares and Dreams".
VISITOR FROM BURMA There will be a get together for Reverend Brother Henry Peter of the De La Salle Congregation Rangoon Burma on February 18 at St Denis' parish hail cnr o f Roberts and Osborne Streets. Joondanna All Brother's old boys, friends and wellwishers are most cordially welcome Please bring a plate and your drinks Brother Henry Peter can be contacted on 342 4313 at 17 Butterworth Ave, Koondoola For further information, contact Martin Macdonald 342 1053, Malcolm Nicholas 349 0356, George Jacob 272 1379.
cy i nitt Forum Hawke calls to work together MELBOURNE: The Federal Government's Si billion spending on youth employment programmes would not work without community participation, the Prime Minister, Mr Hawke, said. Launching a national youth-employment campaign recently, he said: W e all need to recognise our responsibilities in this crucial area." Mr Hawke paid tribute to the Work Search Campaign, which has been organised by a committee of 27 business, academic and community leaders. He praised the Committee for Development of Youth Employment for its initiative and offered full Government support for the campaign. He quoted the committee's slogan: "Give youth a fair go." Mr Hawke said that the Sib. expenditure in 198384 was for programmes aimed at helping young people after they left school, but attention needed to be focused on developing skills more than the essential numeracy and literacy. " Young people need a broad, durable base of skills so they can play a full part in society and be successful in an increasingly competitive employment market in an increasingly competitive world economy," he said. Young people were not unemployed through any wish or fault of their own and they needed a chance. Mr Hawke said that the Federal Govenment had established an independent committee to provide a major review of labour market and training programmes it had inherited. The committee would supply an interim report to the Federal Government in time for the August Budget and provide a final report before the end of the y ear. Mr Hawke said that the various employment programmes inherited by the Government were generally uncoordinated and many were developed under substantially different labour market conditions. The committee of inquiry, to be headed by Victorian Technical and Further Education Board chairman Peter Kirby, had been set up to ensure that schemes "fully meet the Government's labour market policy objectives," the Prime Minister said. We are paricularly concerned that the programmes, the majority of which are aimed at young people, should be both comprehensive and integrated," he said. He said that the Government had allocated S958 million for manpower and training programmes this y ear.
Catholic school students in the United States have written letters of peace to President Reagan and Soviet President Yuri Andropov
Students in plea for real peace
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Catholic school students in America want peace. They've passed the word along to President Reagan and Soviet President Yuri Andropov.
In Butte, part of the Dio- wish granted, she began "I'll get right to the point," the sake of you, the Ruscese of Helena, Montana, making cranes. She com- Gary Harkins told Reagan. sians, the Americans, and cent of these are touched by Father McKeirnan pointat Central Junior pleted 900 before she died. "We keep spending millions everyone, make peace." students regular catechesis. We have ed out that youth in this age to remember the high rate bracket are in desperate High School, a Catholic A group of Japanese school- upon millions of dollars on E xcerpts from the stuof school-leaving beyond need of assistance in form- school, wrote in an Advent children, hearing of her missiles and fighting arms dents' letters expressed their project about 150 personal efforts, finished the last 100. for protection. But when it deep concerns: Year 10, and the almost ing their faith. total lack of catechesis for "It is a period when they letters of concern to Presi- The Butte school used the comes right down to it, the "Some nights I can't sleep those who have left school." are shaping their own iden- dent Reagan. They sent Japanese art of paper-fold- only thing we're succeeding because I am so scared Reagan the letters accom- ing to make the cranes. in doing is possibly doom- about nuclear war," said he said. tity, having to resolve many He estimated the 15-20- c onflicts of adolescent panied by 1,000 paper pink, Before being sent to the ing the world." one. "Death will be the blue and yellow cranes, president, they were dis- David Florian, another victor." Dwayne Romano year-old group of Catholics growth. birds of which the Japanese played at the school. student, addressed Androp- reminded Andropov of the in Queensland to number Meanwhile, in Beechview, ov: "Please don't have 22 million Soviets killed in The anomaly of young are fond. near 70,000. Of these 15,000 are in people developing their The cranes were inspired a suburb of Pittsburgh, another war, and try to World War II. "Just think Catholic schools, 9000 in general understanding and by the true story of a Japa- some 300 intermediate and make peace with us," he of what a World War Ill state schools and the major- skills towards significant nese girl, Sedako, who was junior high school students advised. "I'm sure, for the with nuclear arms could ity, 46,000, have left school. maturity without undertak- burned in the bombing of from St Catherine of Siena sake of our countries, if do," he said. "Why are we "If this sort of figuring is ing a parallel development Hiroshima and wished des- School wrote letters to both you're willing to make making these weapons that extended through to cover in their grasp of the faith perately for world peace. Reagan and Andropov as peace, he (Reagan) is also. kill God's best creation -the age group 15-25, usually and its application to their Remembering the Japanese part of a Thanksgiving All I'm asking is let eve- us?" ryone live and don't be a referred to as youth these lives in today's world has to legend which says that project. days, you can imagine the be faced up to, according to anyone who makes 1,000 Their messages were often cruel human. I'm not saying it'll be easy, but just try. For paper cranes- will have a direct and clear. Father McKeirnan. result." he said.
"The effective ministry to youth is the single greatest challenge f acing the local Church," said Father Ron McKeirnan of the Catholic Education Office, Brisbane. Commenting on implications of the Queensland Education Department's report on religious education in state schools, Father McKeirnan said that the problem of youth ministry had to be "extracted from the too-hard-basket before it was too late." Father McKeirnan is the chairman of the Queensland Catholic Education Lived Commission's Religious Education Committee, and represents Queensland's bi"If you want to blow someshops on the Education thing up, just blow yourself Department's religious eduup, not me," another stucation advisory committee, of which he is the deputy Vietnamese refugee Doan to enter the convent, she has worked with refugees. She tle. Her uncle, Father Peter of difference, Miss Tran dent told Andropov. "You don't have the right to kill chairman. Tran cannot return to her chosen to major in sociol- lived in a room in a church Hung, was able to place her said. His warning came as a country to help her people, ogy and psychology, two andhelped the priest collect with a foster family in Du- Many people in Dubuque me." major Australian study. but she would like to help majors to help her learn clothing for the refugees, buque, where he was teach- didnot understand thepoor Another student asked sponsored by National Ca- others in similar situations. about people. counsel them and teach ing at Divine Word College. Appalachian people and Reagan, "Why do you want tholic Education Commis- Miss Tran, 23, a student at Friends have advised her them about natural family Miss Tran attended one said they were poor because t o blow up Russia, year of high school, then they were lazy, Miss Tran anyway?" sion, is about to be Clarke College in Du- to major in accounting, planning published, "to assist dio- buque, Iowa, wants to be- business or a computer- Meanwhile, through em- enrolled at Clarke College. said. That was not the situa- "I don't want to die n November, she gained tion she found. ceses and parishes face this come a missionary working relatedfield so she can get a bassies, she was looking for I young," still another writer major challenge of the in thepoor areas of Mexico. job when she is graduatedin her brother, who worked some experience in a type of appealed to Reagan. "You "The poor on the bottom 1980s." "The way the Mexicans 1985. Miss Tran has reject- for IBM in Vietnam until mission work when she and cannot walk up because have lived a long time. I 1975, when the family lost six other women from they do not have In Brisbane, a working l ive is very much like the ed that idea. the want to live a long time party is completing a prop- way people live in Viet- "I'd rather talk to people track of him. Since IBM Clarke College travelled to power," she said. also. We should make osal to provide improved nam," she said. "By helping than to machines all my was based in the United Appalachia to help at the peace." diocesan support for youth them, I'll do what! would life," she told NC News. States, the country with the Catholic Mission of the "The people there, they And some asked Reagan have their own values. They and campus ministry. rather be doing in my Miss Tran has experienced highest percentage of Viet- Risen Lordin Clay County, don't have how he could oppose aborabortions. W . esVa. The young women people. She refugees, Miss Tran to namese talking Father McKeirnan said it homeland." tion and yet support nuwas necessary to read be- The 23-year-old student is capedfrom Saigon in 1978 said, she thought he proba- spent the week working at "They have very, very clearweapons develophind the hare statistics of considering joining the Sis- by sailing in a small, bly would be in the United such things as painting a close and very, very warm ment. house, building a back friendships," she added. the Queensland report to ters of Chairty of the crowded refugee boat to States. compile a more complete Blessed Virgin Mary, the Hong Kong. For two When the U.S. embassy porch and underpinning a Miss Tran said she is torn As one wrote: `.`Think of between We in and out of all the babies that may not picture and that the re- order which runs Clarke months she lived in a 1'ni- accepted her applicationfor mobile home. sult was worrying. College. However, while ted Nations refugee camp admission to the country, A lthough Clay County is the convent and is seeking ever be born. Also of all "If we consider the 15-20- she is making the "very there, then began helping a Miss Tran was placed with a only a 19-hour drive from support from her foster God's creation — even you." year-old group, only 25 per tough" decision on whether Hong Kong priest who Vietnamese family in Seat- Dubuque, there is a world parents and her uncle. 13 The Record, February 3 — February 9, 1984
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Philip was very happy. He was running beside the car- estly. "How can I under- passage with the Ethiopian. had come to Samaria to tell riage. He could hear the stand the prophet's words And Philip told him the the people about Jesus. man in the carriage saying unles someone explains good news about Jesus of They were excited to hear something. them to me?" Nazareth. "Jesus was exewhat he told them. "Maybe I can help you," cuted like a lamb led to One day God sent Philip Philip shouted back as he slaughter. But we believe on a special journey. "Head kept running alongside the Jesus did nothing but good Isaiah south to the desert road that all His life — helping peocarriage. goes from Jerusalem to The Ethiopian official or- ple. teaching them, freeing Gaza." God's messenger As he ran alongside the dered the carriage stopped. t hem. We believe God said to Philip. carriage. Philip gradually "Please climb in. Help me if raised Him up from death Philip set out right away. understood what the Ethioto life. He is alive and with you can." He had no idea what God pian official was saying. He us. wanted him to do. He took was reading the Bible. The The Bible text the man "Jesus is our saviour. It a shortcut through the de- man was meditating aloud w as reading was about you accept Jesus as your servant. God's prophet The sert to the main road. When on the words of the Prophet saviour and are baptised he came to the Jerusalem- Isaiah. Philip was amazed. Isaiah wrote that God's you will be happy." servant would be like a Gaza road, he started walkPhilip shouted to man the lamb led to "Stop the carriage" the slaughter. ing toward Gaza. A little while later a car- in the carriage. "Do you "Tell me if you can,- the Ethiopian ordered. "There riage. pulled by four big really understand what you Ethiopian asked Philip, is some water. I want to be "what is the prophet talking baptised. I believe Jesus is horses, came by. The car- are reading?" my Lord and saviour." riage went right past Philip. The man was surprised. about?" He caught sight of a for- But he answered Philip hon- So Philip discussed this So Philip baptised him. eigner sitting in the cariage. He looked like a very important person. Actually he was in charge of the treasury of all of Ethiopia, a country in Africa. Philip heard God's Spirit speaking to him in his heart. "Go and catch up with that carriage," the Spirit told Philip. Philip began to run. Luckily the carriage was not going very fast. Soon Philip
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The twain should meet The Mirror Mind, by William Johnston, SJ. published by Collins, $6.95. Reviewed by Father Tom Boland. In The Mirror Mind, Grace and mediator of time. He uses Jungian mod- The original Kannon, or els to analyse our different Kuan-Yan, was the one who one of todays great spir- meaning. itual masters explores The Mirror of the title he modes of religious expe- listened to the sounds of the the problems and pos- finds common to both mys- rience. It is interesting that world. There were two intical traditions; the mind he stresses the value of terpretations of this sibilities of the meeting m irrors God and the devotion in affective life. listening. between the religions universe. In an epilogue. Father of East and West. This book is the result of a Johnston presents an image It could be the Franciscan William Johnston is an series of eight lectures deli- that may be a sign of future awareness of the universe of God, the listening that is Irish Jesuit who has spent vered in Oxford in 1980, a times. much of his life in Japan. series commemorating the In the long catacomb years comprehension and the exHe comes from a spiritual- late Father Martin D'Arcy. of the Japanese Church, pression of canticle. It could ity of Ignatian prayer and The early chapters deal Christians used statues of a be the listening of one who the mystical traditions of clearly with some prelimi- female Bodhisattva, Kan- hears the suffering of all the mediaeval England and of nary notions - - inter-reli- non, to be their Mary. The world. gious dialogue and the figure was Japanese cultuSt John of the Cross. In either interpretation. He comes to the spiritual- modern objective of self- rally, and safe to display in there is a shared sense of the realisation as seen by East ity of Zen Buddhism. He is times of persecution. They meaning of salvation. This well known for his endea- and West. c alled the lady Maria book is a step along the way exploring the problems and possibilities of the meeting The Mirror Mind vours to disprove Kipling's Most of the book treats of Kannon. to mutual understanding. the East and West the religions of between contention that East and the techniques of prayer and relationship mystical West will never meet. with God. Many contemHe makes no secret of the porary Christians are interfact he writes as a Christian. ested in the physical aids to He feels unable to speak of meditation, posture and Buddhism from the inside, breathing. They are consisince his belief is Christian. dered here. However, he finds Zen The most useful chapter is to "point We are born into a hostile techniques and viewpoints that which deals with the The Myth of Neurosis, by Dr Garth Wood, neurotictotends proudly his 'neurosis' for environment. Happiness helpful in his prayer life. He transformation of feeling. distinguishes between Johnston speaks of the af- published by MacMillan, 7.95 pounds sterling. his frequent visits to his and contentedness must be analyst. As long as he has earned, and to achieve this Christ as the mediator of fective revolution of our Reviewed by Daphne Rae in The Universe. an analyst he has neurosis. it is essential to have selfThere will be many raised caused by coping with life As long as he has a Nahum knowledge. Our most valueyebrows in the department and relationships. prescription he has an il- able. though underrated Help My Unbelief, by points for teachers, and of psychoanalysis after read- H is moral therapist lness. If he has neither, and commodity, is common Michael Paul Gallagher, then a series of letters: to ing this controversial book. "learns about the individu- is turned away from both sense. SJ. Published by Veriparents, to an in-beDr Garth Wood was, until al, not in the way that a analyst and doctor he has Dr Wood believes moral tas, 3.75 pounds sterling. tween, to a church-atherecently, senior house offic- scientist learns about the no excuse and only himself therapy is a preventive medReviewed by Peter Veriist, and to an atheist er in psychiatry at Universi- eating habits of laboratory to blame. Then at last he icine, used as a solution for ty in The Universe. friend. ty College Hospital, mice, or the pipe-smoking will be free to set about understanding the probIn his introduction, the "My children have all London, and does not sage solves the clues to the confronting the problems lems of those who are not author says the book is s topped going to psychiatrically ill, indeed he mince his words in describ- sophisticated crossword that only he can solve." aimed at a twofold auchurch, and I don't ing popular psychology puzzle, but rather in the Moral therapy is about is emphatic that it is not the dience: young adults know what to do about dogma as "unverifiable and way that we learn about the examining oneself and hav- answer to actual psychiatric who feel they are losing it." philosophically unsound next-door neighbour over ing the courage to follow illness. is This is a cry which their faith and want to mumbo jumbo of the meta- the garden fence. our own convictions — For example it would be ponder more; and priets, often heard nowadays physical systems builders "He throws off the protec- whatever the cost. The wise cruelty to apply such treatfrom worried parents teachers and parents such as Freud." tive cloak of pseudo-scien- friend and practitioner of ment to those suffering and it's just one of the w ho are concerned tific expertise. Instead he moral therapy will encour- from schizophrenia or clinInstead Dr Wood claims manifestations of a crisis about the faith of young that moral therapy is the chooses to be a person first age others to follow their ical endogenous depresof faith which many peopeople. Within the limanswer to most psychologi- and last . . ." own directions and not to sion. These people need today's ple feel in itations which this neexpert medical treatment. cal problems which are Dr Wood argues that the listen to dictators. cessarily sets, he has Church. proved remarkably Michael Gallagher's From The Fathers To The Churches, Daily SpiritualReadings, edited successful. book doesn't present a simple answer for reby Brother Kenneth, CGA, published by Collins, $24.95. Reviewed newing people's faith, 0/%1A by Father T P Boland in the Catholic Leader. but it does help to show the complexity of faith Above all, this is a posBrother Kenneth is a number of English saints' today and looks at the itive book. It faces up to member of the Anglican days and commemorations. whole phenomenon of the realities and offers community of the Glorious This introduces the Roman unbelief. hope for a way through. Ascension, Yorkshire, EngCatholic to a range of The book is divided It shows that faith in land. He dates his introduccharming and significant into three sections. Part today's world is not a tion from the Feast of St men and women pre- and 1, Facing Realities, insimple black and white Blaise, 1983. Roman Capost-Reformation, that our cludes chapters with matter ("Go to church tholics may be aware of a duces happier results. Some other selections, frequently Latin tradition has missed. thought-provoking titles feeling of deja vu; perhaps of the Roman Catholic read- from the Venerable Bede. and say your prayers"), Not to know Gilbert of such as "Saying Mass as and complex a very but of nostalgia for the serenity ings, especially for saints' We cannot have too much Sempringham, Swithin of an Atheist", and "The personal struggle involvof the days before Vatican days, are not acceptable to of this gentlest, saintliest of Winchester, Bishop Ken or Breakthrough at Vatiing cultural and social all Christians. Brother Ken- Englishmen. The sanctoral Bishop King is a loss for the can II". factors as well as reliHowever, this collection neth replaces them with is amplified by including a Universal Church. of readings is taken largely gious ones. from the Divine Office, I would recommend renewed at the Council's this book to all priests, teachers, Sisters and parbehest in 1974. It testifies to Part 2, Discerning the ents. Let's face it, we are the great tradition of spiritThe First Christian, St Paul's Impact Roots, looks at the oncerned about the faith ual writing we share. SignifThe subject of the study comes to life causes of unbelief in our as well. We meet Paul as a man of flesh of our young people. icantly the preface on the on Christianity, by Karen ,4 rmstrong, society. This book will help us to and blood. Liturgical Year consists of published by Pan Books, 2.50 pounds P art 3, Responses help them find their way two extracts from classic sterling. Reviewed by Conrad Pepler, The disadvantage of this vividness is that, almost inevitably, the past is looks at ways of respondto faith. authors, one Roman Ca- OP, in The Catholic Herald. I would also recombrought to live with us in the present, ing to unbelief, using tholic, Dom Odo Cassel, Writing scripts for television screenmend it to any young rather than taking the viewer-reader to various techniques. and the other Anglican, ing seems to have introduced a new person who is seriously live in the past. The present of course is Richard Hooker. style of literature. Certainly in this One chapter is a discuspondering questions of brim full of current experience which sion on the future of There are structural differ- book on St Paul (designed as part of an faith. If you are worried ences between the Anglican awe inspiring six-hour television promakes it difficult to bring to life a faith among four believabout rules, regulations and Roman Catholic litur- gramme), there is a vitality to match the ers, another is a devilish character with his own peculiar expeand meaningless ritual, gical calendars. This causes life and movement on the screen. riences. There is no room here and now e xhortation, a la Screwit might surprise you dislocation in the order of for both sets of reality, and the present tape (aimed particularly The author has devoted considerable with its un-Churchy, the readings, but they are all research to support her thesis that in tends to win the struggle for presentaat the clergy), there is a realistic approach. some ways Paul was the author of tion. So Paul appears with a touch of appropriate. further chapter with 10 the modern charismatic evangelist. Another divergence proChristianity.
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THREE SPRINGS VIGIL OF PRAYER All night vigil to mark the Jubilee Year of Redemption will be held at Three Springs on Friday February 10 commencing with Mass at 8 pm. The theme of the night will be "My Soul magnifies the Lord, and My Spirit R ejoices in God My Saviour". The Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament will be interspersed with the communal rite of reconci l iation, opportunities for individual confessions, the rosary, times for reflection and praise with and without music, short films and witnessing. C atholics in theatre, stage, yachting and migration received recognition in the Australia Day honours lists. With his now international reputation in yachting Mr A lan Bond received the O ffice of the Order of Australia. Western Australia was represented also in the same Office with a presentation going to Dr Harry Crock who is a well known orthopaedic surgeon at St Vincent 's Hospi tal , Melbourne. He and his t win brother Dr Gerard Crock, an eminent eye specialist also in Melbourne, are originally from Western Australia. Among the Members of the Order of Australia is Mr Vin Warrener of City Beach who leads the singing at Holy Spirit church there while his wife Helen plays the organ. Mr Warrener is general manager of the WA Opera Company and Arts Orchestra and before coming to Western Australia in 1967 had an impressive career as a boy soloist and later as a
Refreshments will be available throughout the night and breakfast in the morning at 8.00 am.
SACRAMENT SONGS FOR CHILDREN by Sister Maureen Mohen RSM This tape with accompanying music and words book was released in July 1983. They are available as a kit: (tape, music book and words book) for $10 (ten dollars — plus postage).
"My final -year class totalled 15 and because of its size the range of subjects was limited. "I would have liked to have done more maths and more science, but it wasn't possible. "As it happened, when I went to University I did history and now my most enjoyable form of relaxation is settling down with a history book. "Perhaps I haven't suffered so much after all. "I also had the benefit of knowing my results would get me into whatever course at University I wanted. "As a teaching graduate I also knew there would be work when I finished. -There was no doubt, no quota. "In those days, if you went t o teacher's college you knew you would get a job. -Things are very different now. "And in our day, how many of us grew up with unquestioned submission? How many of us now encourage children to dialogue?" In meeting those changing needs, it is even more important, she says, to have staff morale, staff cohesion, staff knowing they have backing and support and staff who
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have the confidence of parents. "A school is a unit and as such it becomes something to which children want to belong," said Sister Denise. "There must be commitment to the ethos and as a principal of a Catholic school, part of my enrolment process is to talk to parents a bout the schoot values. . we must have their support." A firm believer in co-ed schools she says the benefits are even greater for girls without brothers and boys without sisters. The school is also very conscious of the need to be open to a broad socio-economic group and Sister Denise says much credit must go to the council which established the school for that directive. 'We have taken positive initiatives in the support given to refugee and migrant groups," she said. "We see ourselves as a family school and fees have been structured to allow for sibling rebate. "There is also a special rebate for families which cannot afford the fees. "Eligibility is usually as a result of our own awareness or recommendation through a parish priest. "But the main criteria for
helpful. Orders taken by Sister M Albertus R SM, Convent of Mercy, Victoria S quare, Perth WA 6000 Phone (09) 325 4875.
Local sprinter tipped for cup
Her early years in WA theatre were interruped by 12 years in England which covered the war period but saw her returning to the Perth stage in 1949 from which she retired on her 60th birthday in 1951 to take up again her education in speech.
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Work for ethnic groups was recognised in Mrs Maria lrena Mencinsky receiving the Medal of the Order of Australia.
making a decision on enrolment is commitment by the parents and students to the schools' religious and justice values." One of the reasons, she believes, for the success of Catholic schools is just such support. "It is a critical factor and probably works so well for us because a Catholic school has more cohesive and articulate values." She believes firmly the kind of education offered follows s trongly in the Loreto tradition.
"If you look at the foundation of the order at the turn of the 17th century and consider, in historical context, the prospect of women being taught languages, maths and sciences then we are still on the path," she said. 'We were among the first to look to education of the poorer classes. "In Australia we were among the first to have matriculation for girls; the first to publish school magazines; the first to establish a free kindergarten in working class Melbourne which was manned by ex -Loreto students I might add and the
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Gospel meditation. Many schools and families are already using the songs and find them very
tenor with several Victorian light opera companies. Mrs Anita Le Tessier of Mosman Park received the Medal of the Order of Australia for her contribution to education in speech and drama, in which she practised for more than 70 years. She was also in theatre for 40 years.
Together with her late husband Joseph and three children, she came to Australia in 1949 and has been active in Ukrainian women's organisations as well as principal of the Ukrainian school and a worker with the Ukrainian youth organisation.
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They are also available separately: tape $8 (eight dollars), music book $2.50 (two dollars fifty cents), words book 65C (sixty five cents) plus postage. These songs are most suitable for catechetical and liturgical use, for prayer meetings and also for families. Adults too have found them an aid to
first to set up a teacher's college. 'We would certainly take pride in the number of past pupils who have entered the service professions and if we have worked mainly but not exclusively in secondary schools, which have catered for the children of white collar workers, then it would be to direct a sense of concern and consciousness of the injustices in today's society and a sense of service toward redressing those injustices. "Our primary schools are parish schools and so cover the spectrum of society," she said. To all those who would question the historical role of Loreto Sisters in the more affluent strata of society, Sister Denise calls the following story to mind. "One past pupil went to India and was concerned to see Loreto Sisters working mainly with the daughters of the wealthy," she said. "So she went to Mother Teresa and was in turn impressed by the number of 'well-to-do' Indian women who were helping in her work. "She found later very many of these women were past pupils of Loreto." It is a story which means much to Sister Denise.
Interstate dogs are outnumbered, but certainly not outclassed, in the Brownes Dairy Gold Cup final at Cannington Raceway on Saturday night. Victorian, Mexican Shuffle is the sole representative from that state and South Australia has last year's winner Superstar to vie with local greyhounds in the premier $18,000 event. L ocal dog Legatee, trained by David Hamer, is a short-priced favourite at 5.4 and has the form to warrant his place at the head of the market. Legatee, Mexican Shuffle and Superstar are the three main fancies and have drawn the inside boxes. Superstar has the coveted box 1 with Mexican Shuffle in box 2 and Legatee is in box 3. Two scorching runs have seen Legatee win a heat in 30.98 seconds and last Saturday's semi-final in 31.02 after showing brilliant acceleration in the early stages of each race.
Unbeaten Mexican Shuffle is unbeaten in his two WA starts in the series and improved sharply on his heat time of 31.52 in the semi-final with a run of 31.15 from box I. Superstar was an unlucky third to Legatee in his semi-final in 31.28 after winning a heat in 31.36. His trair...:- Darryl Johnstone is reported to have said he would have preferred the dog to have drawn an outside box. However, Superstar won the Cup final last year from box I. He has an imposing record with 22 wins from 37 starts, mainly in top company. He suffered a slightly strained toe in his semifinal run. Gold Velocity, a heatwinner in 31.30 and se-
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DOGS' HANCE... C ‘. Race 1: 1 Matt's Marouda, 2 Chinese Chief, 3 Regal Paleface. Race 2: 1 Spicy Gem, 2 Dark Crystal, 3 Candle Lock. Race 3: 1 Leica Typoon, 2 Working Wild, 3 Ebony Attack. Race 4: 1 Black Shogun, 2 Tiffany, 3 Swanky Lou. Race 5: 1 Aulfee, 2 Supreme Carmen, 3 Flying Lancer.
Race 6: I Legatte, 2 Superstar, 3 Mexican Shuffle. Race 7: I Miss Works, 2 Rowan's Reward, 3 Leica Ruin. Race 8: 1 Pether Road, 2 Black Cannon, 3 Misty Toledo Race 9: 1 Lady Temlock, 2 Leitrim Again, 3 Lunar Ace Race 10: I Griper, 2 The Postman, 3 Ghost Fairy.
cond to Mexican Shuffle in 31.31 has box 5 and is a 10 I chance. Consistent bitch Candid Star, despite a had draw in box 6 is at 8, 1 after seconds in her two runs. Prominent local trainer h as qualified three runners, Hot Risk, Rawita and Ripper's Pick, ironically the trio are the outsiders of the field. The least known to local fans is Mexican Shuffle a three year old dog by Satan's Legend from Gladness trained by John Drennan of Warrnambool, about 264 kilometres from the city greyhound tracks in Melbourne.
Mrs Drennan said early this week Mexican Shuffle was considered only a good honest dog but he was a good beginner who was always near the front and a great competitor. Mrs Drennan said her husband is only a hobby trainer and the biggest stake the dog has won for owner Trevor Brown was $2000 for his fourth in the Melbourne Cup final. Drennan, a bread carter is faced with a 31/2 hour drive each way from War rnambool when Mexican Shuffle competes on city tracks. He then is confronted with a 4 am start on the bread round. Mexican Shuffle faces a hoodoo that has been on Victorian greyhounds in the Gold Cup. Several class performers in Tegimi, Satan Shroud, Roy Trease and now Lady Lilly have been unable to gain a place in the final. Hoodoo's have been o vercome before and maybe Mexican Shuffle can do the trick for Trevor Brown and the Drennans. On the form shown in the heats and semi-finals it definitely looks a race in three and Legatee must be favoured to win from Mexican Shuffle and Superstar.
Drennan has trained Mexican Shuffle from the start of his career in which the dog has started 59 times for 21 wins. He won a heat and semifinal of the Melbourne Cup and was fourth in the final behind Lady Lilly, who failed to qualify for the Gold Cup final. Mexican Shuffle has been in the care of Drennan's wife Maureen since coming to WA. Her husband will come here this week to add the finishing t ouches to the dog's preparation.